I was able to fix the screen by clicking around on the garbled menubar until I found the correct garbled dropdown, and select the correct garbled menu item to reset the display resolution -- talk about a blind pig finding an acorn.
Anyway, all is well and the Xserve chronicles continue. If anyone out there knows how to run system preferences type programs, such as display resolution, from the OS X CLI, I would like to know how for future reference. Dick On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 02:57 AM, Dick Applebaum wrote: > I don't have root access. but the Admin rebooted the system from home > -- It did not help. > > Dick > > On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 10:35 PM, Sean A Corfield wrote: > >> On Friday, Mar 7, 2003, at 21:31 US/Pacific, Dick Applebaum wrote: >>> Only problem is that I want to write this up with screen shots, etc. >>> -- >>> so I need to use the GUI >> >> You could always reboot the server and reconnect to it which should >> refresh the VNC display: >> >> shutdown -r >> >> (as root) >> >> Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ >> >> "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." >> -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
